Stories from Friday, July 6, 2018

On June 27 Mountain Home City Council met to discuss the city's tentative budget for 2019 and where additional funds should be placed. Treasurer Paula Szafranski said this is the second year that everything has been funded. The council discussed funding for the city's civic groups which included $10,000 to the Mountain Home Senior Center, $5,000 for Elmore County Domestic Violence Council, $5,000 to the Mountain Home Arts Council, and $8,000 for the Mountain Home Museum and $20,000 for Treasure Valley Transit, which included a one-time request of an additional $10,000 towards the purchase of a new bus. ...

Rhonda Rea Lastar, age 48, of Mountain Home, passed away suddenly at her home on July 1, 2018. A Celebration of Rhonda’s life will be held at 3:00 PM, on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Rhonda came into the world and immediately brought smiles to everyone. ...

In 1941 the estimated cost for completion for the Anderson Ranch Dam was $13,100,000. This estimate included 12 million cubic yards of excavation, half million cubic yards of earth fill, 1.9 million yards of cobble and rock fill and the installation of 100 tons of steel tunnel supports and liner plates. ...

Jack Cahill Steelsmith, Sr. passed away June 26, 2018 in Mountain Home, ID. Just as he wished, he passed peacefully at home surrounded by family. Jack was 86 and fought a long battle with CHF and Diabetes. Jack was born May 19th, 1932 at his family’s home in Kimberly Idaho, to Herman Cahill Steelsmith and Leslie Emma (Glover) Steelsmith as the only son and oldest of 4...